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Not an expert here, but that was a pretty small explosion and I did not observe any shrapnel.
Maybe it was homemade? Or possibly the military used some sort of less than lethal stun/sting grenade on him?

My apologies, what I had meant to say was I did not observe any dust being kicked up from any shrapnel, but like you said the quality of the video.

But after watching it again and having a conversation with my grandfather, I'm a little bit more certain that this must be some sort of improvised/handmade explosive. My Grandfather told me that in most cases H.E. will produce a white smoke when detonated.

First of all, a person is not a suicide bomber if they're armed with a grenade. Secondly, it was difficult to see if he was even armed. He looks like he could have just been an angry local who was upset with all the soldiers in the area. Who knows? Looks to me like they just shot a guy who was blocking the road.

Ok well even if thats the case you prolly should not fuck with a bunch of dudes who are all heavily armed and expect to not wind up dead. Not that it isn't sad that that dude probably had a family and all that, but the soldiers are just trying to keep themselves safe so they can get home to their families. Maybe I'm biased because my brother is serving in Iraq right now.

*edit and also if a dude with a grenade trying to use it against an overwhelmingly more powerful foe (in terms of numbers and firepower) is not a suicide bomber then what exactly is?

I do not see 20 Marines in the video. Some figures moving in the background appear to be local security forces, and of all of the "uniformed murderers", only 2 or 3 are actually interacting with the man.

Whether you like it or not, an outnumbered man can still be considered an aggressor. In this case, the man who walked up to a group of Marines and local police forces with a grenade in his hand is an aggressor. The uniformed men were completely justified in defending themselves by neutralizing him.

You might say, "neutralize" = "murder", and you're wrong. The first time they shoot him, it is not to kill him; he can (and does) still move around after the first shot. It's not until he makes motions to throw the grenade that they actually kill him.

TL;DR: Proper grammar and spelling do not mean that your comment is not Youtube material. Your reactionary comment (and putting words into my mouth) is what makes you Youtube material.

Instead, you're here simply to throw out inflammatory and factually incorrect comments in order to vent your childish frustration at Amerikkka and presumed Amerikkkans. And now you're playing the martyr. So you've lost the game.

Who is worse? The Marines who fear for their own lives, and clearly hesitate for a while before taking out the grenade man, or the man who clearly does not value his own life, the lives of his countrymen, and the lives of the strangers, and tries to kill himself and others?

The moment he decided, "I'm going to walk up to them with a grenade, while killing myself in the process", he decided that his life is worthless. This is something that he, not the Marines, decided.